The Book of Souls
Iron Maiden
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1
If Eternity Should Fail
08 : 28
2
Speed of Light
05 : 01
3
The Great Unknown
06 : 37
4
The Red and the Black
13 : 33
5
When the River Runs Deep
05 : 52
6
The Book of Souls
10 : 29
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Track Lyrics
If Eternity Should Fail Lyrics
[Intro]
Here is the soul of a man
Here in this place for the taking
Clothed in white, stand in the light
Here is the soul of a man
Time to speak with the shaman again
Conjure the jester again
Black dog in the ruins is howling my name
So here is the soul of a man
[Verse 1]
When the world was virgin before the coming of men
Just a solar witness, the beginning of the end
From a world of magma to a cold rock face
The ascent of madness and a human race
We are strange believers, all of us
There are stranger truths, immortal lust
We rise from slumber, he calls our name
Recalls our number, abide with pain
[Chorus]
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world if eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time if eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world if eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time if eternity should fail
[Verse 2]
To God's illusion, which I recall
Was our delusion before the fall
The angels come and angels go
But the lord of light shining below
Eternal blackness beyond the stars
We think our wisdom will get that far
At the master's table, the table's bare
No land of plenty, devastation, despair
[Chorus]
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world if eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time if eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world if eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time if eternity should fail
[Instrumental Break 4:54 - 6:08]
[Chorus]
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world if eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time if eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world if eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time if eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world if eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time if eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world if eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time if eternity should fail
[Spoken Outro]
Good day, my name is Necropolis
I am formed of the dead
I am the harvester of the soul meat
And I suck the lives from around my bed
My own two sons, I gave them breath
And I filled their living corpses with my bile
What humanity I knew I have long forgotten
For me, eternity is nothing but a short while
Speed of Light Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Another time, another place, a hollow universe in space
I took a trip to see the sights, I will be blacker than the night
One-way ticket, no return, my shootin' star, so fast it burns
On the edge that you can't see let's shoot the moon, you and me
I'm not particular, you see, just a lonesome galaxy
[Chorus]
Shadows in the stars, we will not return
Humanity won't save us at the speed of light
Shadows in the stars, we will not return
Humanity won't save us, we slip into the night
[Verse 2]
I'll say a mass for you and wave, shootin' plasma from my grave
Event horizon, lost in space, runnin' in a human race
I don't know where; I don't know when
But somehow back there, time again
I'm on the edge that you can't see, I’m not particular at night
A single particle of me you won’t be tracking me by sight
[Chorus]
Shadows in the stars, we will not return
Humanity won't save us at the speed of light
Shadows in the stars, we will not return
Humanity won't save us, we slip into the night
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Shadows in the stars, we will not return
Humanity won't save us at the speed of light
Shadows in the stars, we will not return
Humanity won't save us, at the speed of light
[Chorus]
Shadows in the stars, we will not return
Humanity won't save us at the speed of light
Shadows in the stars, we will not return
Humanity won't save us, at the speed of light
[Outro]
We slip into the night
When the River Runs Deep Lyrics
[Intro]
Look for something that is hard to find
Searching somewhere deep inside your mind
Hope you find just what you're looking for
Heaven's waiting with an open door
[Verse 1]
If you should sell your soul as cheaply as I did then
The road to ruin is a long road to hide in
We signed our lives away to have an escape
It's something that will be, whatever our fate
[Bridge]
There's no use in hiding
Got to keep on trying
Can't take no more lying
This is the last
There's no time for crying
When some of us are dying
None of us decide what is our fate
[Chorus]
Now with nothing to hide, going nowhere
Take my chances and stand by their side
When the river runs deep and the line breaks
And the blood, it flows free from our lives
[Verse 2]
Is this the last together maybe this time now?
We stand together and we're holding the line here
There's nothing we can do, just sit here and wait
The die is cast that is deciding our fate
[Bridge]
There's no use in hiding
Got to keep on trying
Can't take no more lying
This is the last
There's no time for crying
When some of us are dying
None of us decide what is our fate
[Chorus]
Now with nothing to hide, going nowhere
Take my chances and stand by their side
When the river runs deep
And the line breaks
And the blood, it flows
Free from our lives
Now with nothing to hide, going nowhere
Take my chances and stand by their side
When the river runs deep and the line breaks
And the blood, it flows free from our lives
[Instrumental break]
[Chorus]
Now with nothing to hide, going nowhere
Take my chances and stand by their side
When the river runs deep and the line breaks
And the blood, it flows free from our lives
Now with nothing to hide, going nowhere
Take my chances and stand by their side
When the river runs deep and the line breaks
And the blood, it flows free from our lives
The Book of Souls Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Sacrifices buried with kings
Accompany them on a journey with no end
To an afterlife that's rich with fruit of all the gods
And to face the demons of their underworld haunts
[Verse 2]
The sentient is sent to seek out all the truth
A flight to earth that is a given from his birth
To rise from ashes of the dead
Out of the fire is sent to fulfill man's desire
[Pre-Chorus]
By power day and night and death, he ruled them
The sky and earth and the fires, too
Two-headed reptile: symbol of his reign
Universes of the underworld
A life that's full of all the wealth and riches
Can never last for an eternity
After living in a golden paradise
The ultimate sacrifice
[Chorus]
Prophecy of sky gods
The sun and moon
Passing of old ways
Will come true soon
Falling of ages
Forest of kings
The search for the truth
The book of souls
[Verse 3]
The rulers of planets and stars
The power of the kings of traders and the wars
Planetary cycles and the phases of the moon
Is in the document, a kingdom they will learn
[Pre-Chorus]
They were praying to the gods of nature
And were living in the cities of stone
Towers reaching upward to the heavens
Sacred wonders for the world unknown
Make their lives be a mystery no more
Records kept and the passing of laws
Sacred gods to the book of lies
When a civilization dies
[Chorus]
Prophecy of sky gods
The sun and moon
Passing of old ways
Will come true soon
Falling of ages
Forest of kings
The book of lost souls
Destruction begins
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 4]
Ascending the throne wearing feathers and shells
He brought back their lives from the void
Alien invasion brings nothing but death
Mass exodus and plant life destroyed
[Verse 5]
Domain of the Earth to the journey of truth
The underworld caves, Mayan slaves
Defeat of the dark lords, the ultimate proof
In the place where the ancestors rule
[Outro]
The book of souls